child hatchery
Luna Park 1878-[1930?] (Photo by Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/luna-park-0])Coney Island Hospital [http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/coneyisland/html/home/home.shtml] recently celebrated its annual reunion [/children-born-premature-reunite-with-the-doctors-nurses-who-saved-them/] for children who were born prematurely and nursed to health by the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive
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Former view from the Astrotower (Source: Barry Yanowitz via flickr)The “Big Bagel in the Sky” has been reduced to a discarded muffin stump on the ground [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eipl17WpOo]. Those who were spooked enough by the swaying Astrotower last week [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2013/
b.i.g.
Superstorm Sandy not only destroyed businesses and homes but some of our favorite Coney Island attractions, including the ominous ‘Cleveland Grandma Fortune Teller.’ In the video above, posted by NationalJukeBox [http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalJukebox?feature=watch], John Poppa shares the history of the famous wax figure which dates